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1993–94 Mersin İdmanyurdu season

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Turkish Cup
  
Eliminated at R2

Most appearances
  
Salih Sayar (32)

President
  
Kaya Mutlu (till 27 March 1993) H. Okan Merzeci (since 27 March 1993)

Head coach
  
Aydın Tohumcu (till 25 October 1993) Battal Toktay (till 31 May 1993)

Stadium
  
Silifke City Stadium Mersin, Turkey

Second League
  
Ranking Group 3: 8th Classification Group 3: 5th

Mersin İdmanyurdu (also Mersin İdman Yurdu, Mersin İY, or MİY) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1993–94. Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) has participated in Second League in 1993–94 season for the 20th time. Starting from the previous year the league had been played in two stages. In this season a third stage, promotion play-offs has been initiated. MİY had a bad season in ranking group and couldn't promote to promotion group and later could not take place in promotion play-offs. The team also participated in Turkish Cup (Türkiye Kupası) 1993–94 and eliminated at Round 2.

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President Kaya Mutlu was succeeded by H. Okan Merzeci, as mayor of the city had changed after municipal elections. Aydın Tohumcu was head coach at the start of the season, but Battal Toktay managed team starting from the second half of first stage. Salih Sayar (GK) was the mostly appeared player during the season with 32 appearances, while Bülent Okyaz and Kurthan Yılmaz followed him with 30 appearances. Mehmet Diner (12) was top goalscorer.

Pre-season

Preparation games:

  • Adanaspor – Mersin İdmanyurdu: 3–1.
  • Adana Demirspor – Mersin İdmanyurdu: 0–0.
  • 1993–94 Second League participation

    Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in 1993–94 Second League season. League was played in three stages. In the first stage 50 teams in five ranking groups (10 teams each) played for top two ranks. The promotion group consisted of those 10 teams. At the end of the second stage, top three teams promoted to top level division 1994–95 First League. Remaining teams in each ranking group played classification matches in classification groups. Bottom two teams relegated to 1994–95 Third League at the end of the season. In the third stage, 8 clubs (3 from the promotion group and 1 top team from each 5 classification groups) played one-leg play-off games in Ankara to determine the two more teams to be promoted to First League.

    Mersin İdmanyurdu took place in 1993–94 Second League Group 3 consisted of 10 teams and finished first stage at eighth place. In classification group, team finished 5th and couldn't play promotion play-off games.

    Results summary

    Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1993–94 Second League season league summary:

    Ranking group league table

    Mersin İY's league performance in 1993–94 Second League Group 3 season is shown in the following table.

    Ranking group games

    Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1993–94 Second League season first half game reports in Ranking Group 3 is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

    Classification group league table

    Mersin İY's league performance in 1993–94 Second League Classification Group 3 season is shown in the following table.

    Classification group games

    Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1993–94 Second League season first half game reports in Classification Group 3 is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

    1993–94 Turkish Cup participation

    1993–94 Turkish Cup was played by 139 teams in 6 rounds prior to quarterfinals in one-leg elimination system. [Mersin İdmanyurdu] had participated in 32nd Turkish Cup (played as Türkiye Kupası in 1993–94 from Round 1 and eliminated at Round 2. The opponents were from the same group with MİY in Second League. Beşiktaş won the cup for the 4th time.

    Cup track

    The drawings and results Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) followed in 1993–94 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.

    Game details

    Mersin İdmanyurdu (MİY) 1993–94 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.

    Club management

    Kaya Mutlu, mayor of Mersin city was president of the club. However, on 27 March 1994 local elections were held in Turkey, and mayor of the city changed. Hüseyin Okan Merzeci won the elections in Mersin. This was his second term. His first term preceded Kaya Mutlu's last (and third) term. Merzeci was elected president in club congress met shortly after the local elections. Mayors presided the club many times in its history and since 1987 mayors were also elected as club presidents in club congresses. At the end of season in 2004 this rule has changed following a law issued by central government to disallow local heads of administrative bodies from being presidents of sports clubs.

    After 10th round of the first stage General Secretary Münif Aper declared that they had fined the players.

    Coaching team

    Aydın Tohumcu managed the team as head coach at the start of the season. Battal Toktay took over the team after his resignment. Both of them were former players of MİY in 1970's. Alp Sümeralp was Super Youth League team coach

    1993–94 Mersin İdmanyurdu head coaches:

    1993–94 squad

    Stats are counted for 1993–94 Second League Group 3 matches and 1993–94 Turkish Cup (Türkiye Kupası) matches only. Five substitutes were allowed to appear in game rosters among who two were substitutable. Players who only appeared in game rosters were included and listed in order of appearance.

    References

    1993–94 Mersin İdmanyurdu season Wikipedia